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View SchemaTunable all-optical switching in periodic structures with liquid-crystal defects
| Authors | Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Igor Pinkevych, Yuri S. Kivshar |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0601124 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0601124 |
| DOI | 10.1364/OE.14.002839 |
Abstract
We suggest that tunable orientational nonlinearity of nematic liquid crystals can be employed for all-optical switching in periodic photonic structures with liquid-crystal defects. We consider a one-dimensional periodic structure of Si layers with a local defect created by infiltrating a liquid crystal into a pore, and demonstrate, by solving numerically a system of coupled nonlinear equations for the nematic director and the propagating electric field, that the light-induced Freedericksz transition can lead to a sharp switching and diode operation in the photonic devices.
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